Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very glad to take advantage of the invitation of the CRIMSON to discuss the question of universal compulsory military training. We feel that as future preachers of the Gospel of good-will we have a peculiar interest in this question. During the last few days a majority of the students of Andover Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Episcopal Theological School and Boston University School and Boston University School of Theology have expressed themselves in a petition to Congress as opposed to "any form of universal compulsory military training, on the ground that it is un-Christian, contrary to American ideals...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
Again, every one who inquires impartially into the fundamental causes underlying modern wars is struck by the fact that in almost every case a nation declares hostilities, not in self-defence or to ward off invasion, but in the secret interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects to timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...there is no reason why the subject of universal military training should not be debated now. Harvard's balloting has not settled the question; it is a topic of more than a day's importance, one which will continue to be of acute interest until sober discussion has decided it one way or the other. A triumph achieved without preliminary argument, though it may be indicative, cannot be regarded as final. Both sides may still make converts...